It’s a sure sign of pressure when failing politicians start blaming the opposition for a deepening mess of their making, but for Greens minister Lorna Slater and her fast-unravelling deposit return scheme it’s turning into blind desperation.
It makes no difference to me who wins the SNP leadership contest because all three candidates threaten to crash the Scottish economy to pursue independence. But in the meantime the drama is a distraction from a seriously bad policy which will affect us all.
Whatever Nicola Sturgeon has been contemplating over the past few weeks as she went from having plenty in the tank to resignation, but on Wednesday’s showing it wasn’t the reality of what the undoubted strength of her personality has created.
We all know SNP health secretary Humza Yousaf has more on his plate that he can cope with, and in the midst of crisis in Scotland’s NHS it wouldn’t be surprising if what are regarded as non-life-threatening conditions fell down his priority list.
Sport has been a huge part of my life, playing and umpiring hockey into my 40s and I loved every second of it. Apart from when a ball whistled past my ear, I never gave care for my well-being a second thought.
Anyone who has seen the horrific video of a schoolgirl assaulting another pupil at Waid Academy in Anstruther must wonder what on earth is going on in our schools. That another pupil chose to film the attack and post it on social media, rather than getting help, only makes it worse.
Not a day goes by in Nicola Sturgeon’s life that she’s not howling at the latest outrage foisted on the Scottish people by the evil Westminster government.
Not quite kicking and screaming, but for all the reluctance to allow the Scottish Parliament to have a proper discussion about the crisis facing NHS Scotland, health secretary Humza Yousaf might as well have been dragged to the Holyrood chamber on Tuesday.
I imagine more than a few of those young Scottish people who heard about government plans for compulsory maths until 18 breathed a sigh of relief when they realised it doesn’t apply to Scotland.
